The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

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In this podcast about all things Hamilton, host Gillian Pensavalle speaks with guests, and sometimes co-host/all time husband Michael Paul Smith, about the innerworkings of the show, how it came together, what it takes to put on all around the world, finding Hamilton references in everyday life, and much more. The Hamilcast has played host to every member of the original creative team, aka "The Cabinet", including repeat visits from Hamilton creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda. The Hamilcast features interviews with cast members from every Hamilton tour, Broadway, and UK company--crew members, musicians, creatives, and the hard working people behind-the-scenes that keep the production alive. Plus: historians, super fans, celebrity Hamilton enthusiasts, and group cast recordings!When I started this podcast in January of 2016, I could not have imagined the incredible community that has grown around the show and the amazing experiences that have come my way. Thank you to everyone who has listened, appeared on the show, contributed, or reached out in any way. This podcast is for you and I absolutely love making it. If you have any great Ham stories or funny references that you've come across, let me know! Email TheHamilcast [at] gmail [dot] com, or contact me on social media @TheHamilcast. I also have a Patreon that has given rise to the loveliest corner of the internet, ever. You can learn more about how to be a part of that lovely corner, and how to submit questions to guests, and to be part of my monthly AMA's at https://www.patreon.com/TheHamilcast

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Lomaxlobo

Absolutely yes

Perfect you need to listen to this
Hamilmom Laura

This podcast is it!

This is far and above my favorite deep dive into, anything! Maybe it’s because it was started by Gillian, who had not seen the show when she started the podcast or because of her genuine love for “the thing”, but either way, this podcast is the best. She makes all of her guests feel at home, and helps the listeners to feel like they are part of the interview, even including questions from the Patrion Peeps. I raise my glass to Gillian and this wonderful podcast!!
Bethgirl55

Love it!

Love Gillian and this podcast! If you love Hamilton then give this a listen, you won’t regret it. 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
Insert Funny Nickname Here

A true passion project

I love Gillian’s passion for this show and her deep conversations with so many people involved in the production.
Kelly Gyrl

I am so happy to find this podcast

I know I am YEARS to late to podcast, but I am a Hamilton enthusiast and even if it takes me all summer to listen to all of these episodes it will be worth it. I am excited to go thru this process with the hosts and every guest. I’m ready. Thank you!
❤️Addieisaswftie❤️

Love this podcast so much

I love this podcast so much because I also love this musical and it is so hard to not love to listen to this podcast.
jggnac1

Bad Host

Need a new host who isn’t so self absorbed
Jack Mack from Hackensack

Gillian

Another leech job by zero-talent, zero-skills, Gillian Pensavalle!!
FelineGroovy17

We Were All Rooting For You!

Your silence proves that you are the “pick me” mean girl that we have all started suspecting. Also, the Hamilcast has been soooooo repetitive and boring for the last couple years.
missmargarita8604

Disappointed

So incredibly disappointed in this podcaster.
Deebles111

Not great

Gillian is a troubling person . It’s not worth listening to someone so two faced.
PopcornSaladBrunch

Just no

I can’t with this host. Also, guest sound quality is iffy and having straight, white, cis people give their pronouns before starting is one more virtue signal to add to Gillian’s list.
johhniP

Listen to Something Else

Host is incredibly unlikable. You’re better off listening listening to literally anything else.
Tarzanphan60

How the mighty have fallen

I used to love this podcast. Now the episodes are stale and repetitive. Listen to the first few years. They were great. I also can’t tolerate that the podcast host is complicit and silent about abuse based on the Obsessed Network.
goldengirl555

Nope

Hard pass
Abbhevmad010305

Nope

Don’t waste your time or energy, there are better pods about Hamilton with better hosts. Garbage.
Pinktink86

History has its eyes on you GP

I love Hamilton but I have no time for the host. She is complicit in the mistreatment of others. Your silence speaks volumes. You are a coward. If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?
#podcastlover_medusa

So interesting and insightful!

Gillian’s so funny, the guests are all so sweet, and I’ve learned a lot!
Bre559

Love it!

I started listening to Gillian during COVID. Her podcast brought joy to my life and has inspired a deeper love for the theater. During a dark time in the world, this podcast has brought light!
ugh -_-

<3

Love you GP!
#MidnightFan

Love it!

As someone who is very interested in making a career out of music, this podcast only adds to the fun. I love that Gillian has friendships with some of the original cast, it makes it so interesting to hear different stories from people who have helped me build by personality throughout my life as a teen. You really should get Jasmine Cephas Jones on here about Peggy/Maria!
Mrs nope

I won 5 times

I absolutely love this podcast. I won the lottery 5 times and only got to go once because of personal founding. i once forced my animation professor to rap cabinet battle 2 with me in the middle of class and because I won I got extra credit.
krisbrugman

simply the best

THE BEST!!! I have learned SO much about theater in general (not just Hamilton, but of course Hamilton). I’ve always loved the ‘background people’ but getting to hear from literally EVERYONE from on stage IN the spotlight, to the incredible crews BEHIND that spotlight. The intricacies of each ensemble/swing member, the musicians in the pit. Gillian really does her homework and is able to bring something fresh and new each episode. She’s a true, loving FAN of theater and brings that joy each week! Don’t even get me started on her talented edits! And if you haven’t met the Patreon Peeps yet, you’re missing out (IYKYK)
a.secretly.coded.name

heyyyyyy

i am sooooo loving this podcast!!!! the guests are awesome and Gillian does her research so well and asks meaningful questions. love it so so much. i truly look forward to each new guest. i have only seen the show once and i was fairly young so i don’t remember it very well but i still have the playbill and love it when someone from the company that i saw is on the pod. love love love 💛💛
bethany 120

Bruh

I love Hamilton it’s amazing and I think this podcast is also amazing!!!!!!!!
RedriderC

Gillian is AWESOME!! Keep doin you G.P.

She is not acting cocky about knowing her guests. As someone else rudely said just that in another comment Shame on u 4 the HATEFUL THOUGHTS!!! To all the people I have spoken with…. It sounds more like “she is proud” that she gets to be around such awesome talented people! While the rest of us are the ones jealous, and grateful she does know them, or it would make for a very boring show! IGNORE THE HATERS!!!!!!!
SerenaMariePowell

So good!

Here from TCO! As a Hamilton fan, I love this sm! Thanks!
theguitarandanimalgirl

Nice guests, eh host

I like the guests on this podcast, but sometimes the host (Gillian, I think?) is very annoying. It seems like she is trying to make the listeners jealous that she is friends with these people. She also seemed like she interrupts the guests sometimes.
Expecta Patronum

Awesome but I miss Bianca and Chernow

Maybe it is because i am not on social media but I am on the Lin Manuel Miranda and there has been no mention of Bianca for a few episodes. It started when Gillian said that she was away for a wedding and then she changed the part at the end to just her. After that it was just Gillian and no one said anything about Bianca. After episode 67 Chernow chapter stabbed in the dark there was never another Chernow episode that i know of and we have not even gotten to the Reynolds Pamphlet Any way those are my thoughts M. Stryk. Slytherin
Kevinr5

love Gillian

Loving it 40 In so far more to go!
LKJFoiju

I really wanted to like this

Echoing what so many others have said, this isn't a podcast about Hamilton, its actors, and creators. It's about these particular fans' love for Hamilton. It's 90% the "hosts" gushing over people, interrupting thier guests, their inside jokes with each other, and just repeating themselves over and over again. I'm sad.
tigress427

😆I love Hamilton😆

So I love Hamilton and my dad said I don’t like but I don’t how and I told my friend to watch it and she said is a musical because I don’t like musicals I’m like how about everyone I know doesn’t like Hamilton I think this podcast is really for me and I really recommend this podcast so how i started to listen to it was I was looking for a new podcast and I saw this and I’m like yes please and when I sleep I love listening to podcast because I love listen to people talk so I was listen and I’m like wam bam yes mame I loveed it so who ever is reading this I and didn’t listen to it yet I hope u listen I really recommend it
a-zhang-

used to be good

this podcast used to be something that i adored, but lately i feel that the quality has gone down. the interviews were more casual and conversational, but i feel that the interviews/interview content are starting to get repetitive. i really miss bianca (what even happened to her? she just disappeared…) and the chernow chapters. i’ll still keep listening but i do hope that some of the old content will be brought back someday.
johanna @.23

Johanna Torres

Johanna
GSP1BYU

Awesome best thing ever

Hi there My name is Tabitha and I recently had felt like giving up, I love musicals and my mom actually said “why don’t u find a podcast for you” and I thought of looking up my favorite musical Hamilton so I searched that up and I saw this and at once I was in love. I have been dying for Broadway to open up again just so that I can go and see more musicals! Plz read this on podcast
gracielizjacks

Oh noo! I don’t like these people

I love TCO and Hamilton but oh my these hosts are obnoxious and ignorant
emwestphal

I love all things Hamilton and M&B!

I decided to watch Hamilton because of Mary and Blake, and that was the best decision of my life (okay maybe not the BEST, but close enough). I am obsessed with the soundtrack and I am glad to have someone to talk to about this, even if it is just Mary and Blake talking and me listening🤣 definitely recommend!
Brookie_1107

Good Podcast

I used to love this podcast and was even in the fb group for a while. However, I do miss when Bianca was on (along with the chernow chapters which I loved) and there has not been a mention of her in years. As far as the podcast, the constant interruption of guests becomes somewhat annoying very quickly. I also feel like the podcast used to be a fun “hang out” of sorts where I felt like I was with the guests while listening to them. However, I stopped listening because it turned very political very quickly. I acknowledge that this is coming from a privileged place, but I honestly just want to hear about the guests and not necessarily politics, as this was one of my escapes from the crazy world we live in.
gnofr

Plzzzzzzz if u see this plzzzzzzzzzz read this

You guys are amazing to me. All of my friends don’t like Hamilton and you guys are like friends to me! I only know one person who likes ham but their in Dallas soo. I have to ask you all a question. Is very Sirius . I’m very nervous to ask so don’t judge me. Ok here it goes. Do you know the muffin man?
Sjf11

TGO

True Gillian Obsessed!!!!!! All of the guests are so fascinating and Gillian is a true gem. It has replaced my negativity with positivity. Thank you. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!! I binged in peak quarantine...cried at just about every episode. I kind of miss it and I may have to binge the whole thing again!!!! I loved the feel I had while listening. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
mackat11

I ❤️ U Alex Brightman!!!!!!!

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raptor_KND

Hamilton lover

My first time watching Hamilton was a few days ago and I have watched it at least once every day for the last 4 days it is absolutely amazing and now there’s a podcast uh yes mam ima listen to it.
perfectMisP

WAIT

Omgggggg I’m a big Hamilton fan and THERES A PODCAST!!!!! That’s it I’m more than addicted now!!😆
123anonymous-1-2-3

💙💙💙💙💙💙

LOVE Gillian and LOVE the Hamilcast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
soon-to-be-author

Outdated too

AHHHH!!!! In season one The reason she could not go to Hamilton was because of a blizzard!!!!!! Does anyone even remember when the world was like that? 😷😷😷
HAMILTONnewt10

I loved it!

How I got interested in Hamilton: My mom saw the musical and came home and started listening to the music. I got interested, and a couple years later I went to New Jersey. My mom said to bring fancy class because we were going to a restaurant. We got lunch at Starbucks. Then, my mom took me over to take a pic in front of the Hamilton sign at the Richard Rogers Theater. Then she said let’s go see it. I was like no way. And then we saw it. Best vacation of my life!!! I also got to go to the M&M factory. I love this podcast! My mom gave an old beat up version of Ron Chernow’s Hamilton, and I started reading. I got to page two, and stoped. This podcast brought me the courage to keep reading. I read a chapter, listen to you summarize. Read a chapter, listen to you summarize. I just started, so still on the first chapter. I just wanted to say thanks for being Hamilton nerds with me!
giakelly

‘‘Twas the night

Loved this sooooooooooo much Thanks for the special Xmas treat 😊
C Dash12

LAAAAAATE

Huge Hamilton fan and I’m just discovering this podcast. LOCKED IN!!
sunnydog321

Epic! I’m satisfied!

Awesome! Wonderful! 6 out of 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
itsirisj

Yessss

Queen G.Pen delivers again. So so so good. Feels like I’m chatting with my family. Raising all the glasses and stars ♥️

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